SC - Queen's Teas? Period terms?

[Jenne Heise]

> >>  No. That's the Ladies' Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society.
> >Sorry, the OED records the first occurence of Terrorist to 1795, and the
> >first occurence of Sewing Circle to 1846.
> That's the first usage in English. Wasn't he translating from Ruritanian?

Well, the OED quote about Terrorists appears to be from the Annual
Register. Probably refers to the protagonists of the French Revolution,
from the looks of it.
;)
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